coral | (adjective) of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color | - |
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cordial | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, amiable, genial |
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(adjective) politely warm and friendly | - |
(adjective) sincerely or intensely felt | - |
coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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corneal | (adjective) of or related to the cornea | - |
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corporal | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
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(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporeal, somatic |
corporeal | (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: material |
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(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporal, somatic |
correctional | (adjective) concerned with or providing correction | - |
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correlational | (adjective) relating to or employing correlation | - |
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cortical | (adjective) of or relating to a cortex | - |
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corticifugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoefferent, corticofugal |
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corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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corticofugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticoefferent |
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coseismal | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismic |
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cosmogonical | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmologic, cosmological |
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cosmological | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic |
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(adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmologic |
costal | (adjective) of or relating to or near a rib | - |
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cotyloidal | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: acetabular, cotyloid |
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counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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cranial | (adjective) of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain | - |
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craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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criminal | (adjective) guilty of crime or serious offense | - |
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(adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: felonious |
(adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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critical | (adjective) marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws | - |
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(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment | - |
(adjective) being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency | - |
(adjective) at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction | - |
(adjective) of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism | - |
(adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: decisive |
(adjective) urgently needed; absolutely necessary | Synonyms: vital |
crucial | (adjective) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis | Synonyms: important |
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(adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, essential, of the essence |
(adjective) having crucial relevance | - |
cruel | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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crural | (adjective) of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot | - |
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crustal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon | - |
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cryptical | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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(adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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cryptological | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic |
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cubical | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubital | (adjective) of or relating to the elbow | - |
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cuboidal | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboid |
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cultural | (adjective) of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors | - |
(adjective) relating to the raising of plants or animals | - |
(adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical |
cuneal | (adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneiform, wedge-shaped |
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curatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator | - |
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cursorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for running | - |
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curtal | (adjective) (archaic) docked | - |
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curvilineal | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilinear |
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cuspidal | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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cutaneal | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneous, dermal |
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cxl | (adjective) being ten more than one hundred thirty | Synonyms: 140, one hundred forty |
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cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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cyclical | (adjective) recurring in cycles | Synonyms: cyclic |
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cycloidal | (adjective) resembling a circle | Synonyms: cycloid |
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cyclonal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
cyclonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
cylindrical | (adjective) having the form of a cylinder | Synonyms: cylindric |
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cynical | (adjective) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others | Synonyms: misanthropic, misanthropical |
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cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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cytogenetical | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetic |
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cytological | (adjective) of or relating to the science of cytology | Synonyms: cytologic |
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daedal | (adjective) complex and ingenious in design or function | - |
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daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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deceitful | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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(adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: fallacious, fraudulent |
decimal | (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: denary |
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decompositional | (adjective) causing organic decay | - |
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deferential | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, regardful |
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deformational | (adjective) relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure | - |
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delightful | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delicious |
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delusional | (adjective) suffering from or characterized by delusions | - |
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demagogical | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogic |
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demoniacal | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, possessed |
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dendroidal | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, tree-shaped, treelike |
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denominational | (adjective) adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of a particular religious denomination | - |
(adjective) relating to the face value of a banknote, coin, or stamp | - |
dental | (adjective) of or relating to the teeth | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to dentistry | - |
departmental | (adjective) of or relating to a department | - |
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derivational | (adjective) characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base | - |
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dermal | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermic |
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(adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, epidermal, epidermic |
(adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, cutaneous |
dermatological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing dermatology | Synonyms: dermatologic |
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despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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detrimental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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dextral | (adjective) of or on the right | - |
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(adjective) preferring to use right foot or hand or eye | - |
dextrorsal | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorse |
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diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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(adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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diagonal | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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(adjective) connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face | - |
diagrammatical | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatic |
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dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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diametrical | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametric |
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(adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, opposite, polar |
diaphyseal | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphysial |
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diaphysial | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphyseal |
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diarrheal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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diarrhoeal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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(adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
didactical | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactic |
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diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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dietetical | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetic |
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differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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(adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
digital | (adjective) of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits | - |
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(adjective) relating to or performed with the fingers | - |
(adjective) displaying numbers rather than scale positions | - |